I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me

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{{Infobox album

| name = I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me

| type = Studio album

| artist = James Brown

| cover = James Brown I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me.jpg

| alt =

| released = March 1968

| recorded = 1968

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Funk

| length = 43:06

| label = King

| producer = James Brown

| prev_title = Cold Sweat

| prev_year = 1967

| next_title = I Got the Feelin'

| next_year = 1968

| misc = {{Singles

| name = I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me

| type = studio

| single1 = Get It Together

| single1date = October 1967

| single2 = The Soul of J.B.

| single2date = November 1967

| single3 = I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me) / There Was a Time

| single3date = November 1967

| single4 = You've Got to Change Your Mind

| single4date = February 1968

}}

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}

| rev2 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book|last=Cross|first=Charles R.|author-link=Charles R. Cross|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|chapter=James Brown|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/109 109]}}

}}

I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me is the eighteenth studio album by American musician James Brown. The album was released in March 1968, by King Records.{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-cant-stand-myself-when-you/id528616945 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713063406/https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-cant-stand-myself-when-you/id528616945 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 13, 2015 |title=iTunes - Music - I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me by James Brown |publisher=iTunes |access-date=2015-07-12}}{{cite web|author=Al Campbell |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/i-cant-stand-myself-when-you-touch-me-mw0000460961 |title=I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me - James Brown |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=2015-07-12}}

Track listing

{{Track listing

| title1 = I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me), Pt. 1

| writer1 = James Brown

| length1 = 3:22

| title2 = There Was a Time

| writer2 = James Brown, Bud Hobgood

| length2 = 3:35

| title3 = Get It Together, Pt. 1

| writer3 = James Brown, Bud Hobgood, Alfred Ellis

| length3 = 3:43

| title4 = Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby

| writer4 = James Brown, Bud Hobgood, James Crawford

| length4 = 4:22

| title5 = Time After Time

| writer5 = Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn

| length5 = 2:57

| title6 = The Soul of J.B.

| note6 = instrumental

| writer6 = James Brown, Bud Hobgood, Gladys Knochelman

| length6 = 3:01

| title7 = I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me), Pt. 2

| writer7 = James Brown

| length7 = 4:10

| title8 = Get It Together, Pt. 2

| writer8 = James Brown, Bud Hobgood, Alfred Ellis

| length8 = 4:43

| title9 = Why Did You Take Your Love Away from Me

| writer9 = James Brown, Bud Hobgood

| length9 = 3:02

| title10 = Need Your Love So Bad

| writer10 = Little Willie John

| length10 = 3:24

| title11 = You've Got to Change Your Mind

| writer11 = James Brown, Bobby Byrd, Gene Redd, Ron Lenhoff

| length11 = 3:48

| title12 = Funky Soul #1

| writer12 = James Brown, Bud Hobgood, James Crawford

| length12 = 2:09

}}

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